Homecooking [Apr ed]
April was an exciting month for me!
I had staycation as you know. .. I followed 2 badminton tournaments during my time off: the Korea Open & the Korea Masters. Due to the time difference, things were difficult but bcos I was on vacation, it worked out lol I also watched the ISU Short Track World Championship 2022 that happened in Montreal from April 8-10. Yes, it overlapped with the badminton tournament dates so I’d watch badminton till ‘very early’, then get up for the 8am start for the short track competition. It was intense! Hence I feel like my staycation was more hectic than my work days. But it was all worth it!
I had many thoughts re: the Short Track competition. 1st of all, Canadian Short Track skater Charles Hamelin retired after this race :’) it was soooo emotional omggggg I’m so happy that the Canadian team won the mens 5000m relay at the Beijing Olympics. I feel like that was a nice closure to his career, you know what I mean? As for the Korean Short Track team.. . TBH, the ladies division was kinda hard to watch at times. It was the return of SSH, who was in a lot of controversy & stuff for the past few yrs. I’m glad she returned but the team moments were so awkward. I also became a new fan of Lee June Seo, & I wished that the commentators would pronounce his name properly or at least, keep in consistent. There’s a Korean girl with surname “Seo”, & similar for her. .. “Seo” was pronounced differently all the time!!! There was “siu”, “sau”, “soo”, “so”. .. SMH. The closest is “saw” in English......... lol oh well. Anyway, congrats to the Korean team. Choi Min Jung is AMAZINGGGGG!
Okay, enough about the sports . .. haha
Random soup I made using white beech mushroom, onion, Spam, & chayote. Forgot what soup paste I used.. . but probably deonjang judging by the colour :P
I recently had the seafood version of this mung bean pancake. This is the original mung bean only version. I prefer the seafood one more bcos the seafood bits made the texture more interesting; this was more mushy & uniform throughout.
Pasta~
This was take-out that my brother got from Blue Truck Barbeque. It’s their
Homemade patties avec les English muffins haha the patties were chicken-based.
* * * * * * book break * * * * * *
I may start doing this in my future homecooking posts - a book review break to share what I read during the month. It’s my goal to read 15 books this yr. This one is book #5 - “The Red Palace” by June Hur.
June Hur is a Canadian author who specializes in YA fiction (with a Korean setting). She’s written 3 novels (4th one to be released in 2023) & I’ve read AND OWN all 3! I know it’s YA but . .. I don’t typically base my choice on YA vs non-YA. Her stories are very interesting in that it’s mystery-solving & there’s just not much out there with the Korean historical setting, you know? I can see all 3 of her works as a Kdrama, esp this one! I breezed through it during the badminton x short track week! The pace was consistent; the characters were humane & relatable; the plot twist was excellent; style of writing (bcos it’s not a translated work) was very easy to read (also bcos it’s YA but still... it was well-written). I highly recommend this book!!
*PS: I plan to continue collecting her books ^^
Another pasta. This was was a tomato pesto sauce with beef + mushrooms. I decided to add some tomato as I was cooking .. . & yeah, the tomato juice -.-” the product became water-y.
Sujebi with napa cabbage & Korean fish cake (the long cylindrical ones).
Noodle soup with white beech mushroom, napa cabbage & imitation crab.
Mini portion of bibim-myeon with chicken breast over a bed of spinach.
Trying the strawberry cream cheese from Costco. It’s alright! Compared to other ones, the texture of this one was very soft & smooth.
JJAMPPONG with mini dumplings.
Another type of noodle with mini dumplings & fish cake.
As you can see. .. napa cabbage is a big part of my life LOL so is broccoli. I typically use broccoli for work meals bcos I feel they’re more filling. & napa cabbage.. . I don’t really like it in a dry dish if that makes any sense. It belongs in a soup of some sort bcos it’s so good at soaking up flavours.
Have you guys tried this??? If you haven’t, I don’t recommend it. It was very dry. ..
I FINISHED ANOTHER BOOK~ WooooooooT!! Book #6 DONE~
This is a sequel to Dial A for Aunties. I personally liked the first book more but this one was pretty entertaining as well. Compared to The Red Palace, this one took me slightly longer to finish. I didn’t find I was into it as much as The Red Palace. Still good though! An easy read!
Bro made steak. YUMMM
Udon (yeah.. the square ones that I don’t like) with fish cakes, corn, napa cabbage, & cherry tomatoes. This batch of cherry tomatoes were larger than usual & unusually not very juicy. You know what you bite into one, oftentimes, tomato juice just squirts out? Well, not this one. It was hardier (?).
That is it! Bye
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What I eat in a day #8
...I can’t believe my last “what I eat in a day” was in 2021 😐 I mean how?! Last time I posted “what I eat in a day” inspired by other bloggers.
I am happy the second season of this series came back! 🥳
20th of June 🍓🍌
1. Breakfast 05:07 classic breakfast - overnight oats (45 g. oats, 190 g. frozen berries, 160 ml. soy milk, hemp seeds)
2. Snack: 10:30 1 banana - I did not take a picture so ... 🍌
3. Lunch 12:23 creamy green beans soup 🥣 and chickpea waffles
and vegan peanut butter protein bar
4. Dinner 19:56 everything what was in the fridge --> to my plate 😅
tofu, corn and beans, avocado, mix of greens, red onion, sriracha
I can’t finish the day w/out something sweet. My favourite 2 min. dessert: microwave frozen banana and strawberries for 50 sec. Choose the defrost option. I covered it with hemp seeds and crushed almonds.
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